Thursday, May 24, 2018

The inherent flaw in the reasoning of tyrants and their stooges who resort to banning one, specific gesture of protest --

TRUMP SUGGESTS KNEELING N.F.L. PLAYERS SHOULD BE DEPORTED

...

“The N.F.L. owners did the right thing if that’s what they’ve done,” he told Fox & Friends’s Brian Kilmeade during an exclusive interview Thursday morning. “I think that’s good, I don’t think people should be staying in locker rooms. . . . You have to stand proudly for the national anthem or you shouldn’t be playing, you shouldn’t be there—maybe you shouldn’t be in the country.”...

-- is that they simultaneously reveal just how weak and craven they are, and they remind everyone that are so many other very public ways to tell those tyrants and their stooges to fuck right off.

President Donald Trump will not meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un next month for what would have been a historic diplomatic summit, he announced in a letter to Kim released by the White House Thursday morning...

So President Stupid just got pantsed in front of the whole world by a blood-drunk, half-bright adolescent lunatic who rules a third world shitpile.

Well I have worn the soles out of my last pair of "We Fucking Told You So" dancing shoes, so let's just stipulate that A) this will not make the slightest difference to the reprogrammable meatbags of the Republican base because, B) by next week it will be completely forgotten by them because, C) Spygate/Benghaaaazi/Emails/Seth Rich/!

.@secupp: "We appear to be trending in a direction where there are two parties in this country: There's the party of progressives and the party of Trump, and that leaves a lot of people in the middle who are locked out of the conversation." https://t.co/dGG8AtdXcy

You are politically homeless because what you believe is ridiculous and awful, but the ridiculous, awful, lying, racist avatar for those beliefs which which your party nominated and elected makes you feel icky.

You are politically homeless because the idea of ever admitting that the Left has been right about the Right all along also makes you feel icky and -- let's face it -- would also be professional suicide.

Tuesday, May 22, 2018

A couple of days ago I posted a call-and-response style post in which our humble narrator keeps interrupting Michael Gerson's latest, ludicrous whitewashing of Republican party history with significant events from the actual history of the Republican party which make Mr. Gerson look either remarkably stupid or like a pathological liar.

Excuse me, Mr. Gerson, but Jesus Christ on a UPS truck, you are not going to believe what happened!

Funny story, actually.

It seems that some Liberal asshole bundled together the record of your entire Republican party during the Obama Administration. You know, long before Donald Trump ever oozed down the escalator and into the hearts of the reprogrammable meatbags who always have been the base of your party...

-- with a request for the link to which I was referring.

Well, see, there is no link. There was nothing wrong in asking, but the the point I was attempting to make was that the actions of Mr. Gerson's Republican party every single day of the eight years of the Obama Administration all irrefutably damn Mr. Gerson's Republican party. That the evidence of their sabotage and sedition was all so clear-cut, so right-out-in-the-open and of such recent vintage that no compendium of each of the hundreds of individual acts of betrayal should be necessary.

But it did get me to thinking about this.

See, over the years I have noticed a very specific form of wishful thinking among my fellow Libtards that it really is long past time that we outgrow. And that is the fantasy that if we just had at our disposal some Grand Comendium of all modern Republican crimes against this country -- complete with tables of contents and footnotes and links and ibids and passims and vols -- that this would somehow begin to turn the tide.

That somehow, if we just had an exhaustively researched Indignity Gauntlet outfitted with all six Indignity Stones we would finally have a tool powerful enough to haul the Republican party down out of the Stupid Tree and force them to see reason. Hell, maybe even just the Time Stone and with it the power to drag them back a day or a week or a month and watch themselves loudly swearing by the exact opposite of what they are swearing by today, and then jaunt them into the future so they can watch themselves swearing by the exact opposite of what they are swearing by today.

But the thing is, even if I had the luxury of taking off a year or so to compile such a thing, I wouldn't. Because it is a fool's errand. Because the problem is not that Republicans lack access to the same facts you and I and every other person with a computer has at our fingertips at all times. Quite the opposite: they're drowning in humiliating, irrfutable rebuttals to everything they believe, which is why they have welded themselves inside the Hate Radio/Fox News bunker.

They cannot be reached, because they have chosen not to be reachable. They cannot be reasoned with because they reject reason itself.

Of course there will come a moment when the administration of President Stupid finally cracks down to the keel and slides beneath the waves, and in that moment these fuckers will try to flee down every available rat-line in their millions. But don't expect them to acknowledge any personal responsibility for any of the madness they made possible. Instead, expect to see a massive uptick in self-identified "independents" who will all swear that never really supported Donald Trump at all with the same fervor that they now swear that all negative information about Trump is Fake News by the Deep State.

Expect to see them scurry around madly, loudly blaming Both Sides, to the delight of all the Beltway Both Siderists, who will be more than happy to tell these newly-minted "independents" the fanwing, flattering lies they wish to believe...

...even as they scan the horizon for the next lying Republican demagogue into whose arms they can fling themselves.

Why do I fully expect that, unless we on the Left mount a sustained and coordinated campaign to prevent this from happening, that this is what our future looks like?

Because we have been here before. Several times. And this is always how it goes.

For example, nine years ago -- long before Donald Trump oozed down the Escalator of Fate and into the hearts of the GOP's racist asshole base -- a guy named Russell King compiled an abridged version of exactly the sort of Grand Compendium of Republican atrocities that way too many of my Liberals brothers and sisters still believe can be used to open Conservative minds.

It was a huge hit. It went viral. Bigly. Traveled around and around Teh Internets a zillion times while many a good-hearted Liberal emailed it to their own Crazy Uncle Liberty with with "PLEASE READ" in the the subject line.

And in the end it simply faded away, having made little or no difference whatsoever.

Here, for the benefit of future generations, is Mr. King's epic work from nine years agoreposted in its entirety. And no, I have not checked to make sure each individual like is still active. And no, I do not intend to.

An open letter to conservatives

March 22, 2010, 3:16PM

Dear Conservative Americans,

The years have not been kind to you. I grew up in a profoundly Republican home, so I can remember when you wore a very different face than the one we see now. You've lost me and you've lost most of America. Because I believe having responsible choices is important to democracy, I'd like to give you some advice and an invitation.

First, the invitation: Come back to us.

Now the advice. You're going to have to come up with a platform that isn't built on a foundation of cowardice: fear of people with colors, religions, cultures and sex lives that differ from your own; fear of reform in banking, health care, energy; fantasy fears of America being transformed into an Islamic nation, into social/commun/fasc-ism, into a disarmed populace put in internment camps; and more. But you have work to do even before you take on that task.

Your party -- the GOP -- and the conservative end of the American political spectrum have become irresponsible and irrational. Worse, it's tolerating, promoting and celebrating prejudice and hatred. Let me provide some examples -- by no means an exhaustive list -- of where the Right as gotten itself stuck in a swamp of hypocrisy, hyperbole, historical inaccuracy and hatred.

If you're going to regain your stature as a party of rational, responsible people, you'll have to start by draining this swamp:

You can't flip out when the black president bows to foreign dignitaries, as appropriate for their culture, when you were silent when the white presidents did the same. Bush. Nixon.Ike. You didn't even make a peep when Bush held hands and kissed (on the mouth) leaders of countries that are not on "kissing terms" with the US.

You can't praise the Congressional Budget Office when it's analysis produces numbers that fit your political agenda, then claim it's unreliable when it comes up with numbers that don't.

You can't vote for X under a Republican president, then vote against X under a Democratic president. Either you support X or you don't. And it makes it worse when you change your position merely for the sake obstructionism.

shout "baby killer" at a member of Congress on the floor of the House, especially one who so fought against abortion rights that he nearly killed health care reform (in fact, a little decorum, a little respect for our national institutions and the people and the values they represent, would be refreshing -- cut out the shouting, the swearing and the obscenities);

You cant repeatedly assert that the president refuses to say the word "terrorism" or say we're at war with terror when we have an awful lot of videotape showing him repeatedly assailing terrorism and using those exact words.

If you're going to invoke the names of historical figures, it does not serve you well to whitewash them. Especially this one.

So, dear conservatives, get to work. Drain the swamp of the conspiracy nuts, the bald-faced liars undeterred by demonstrable facts, the overt hypocrisy and the hatred. Then offer us a calm, responsible, grownup agenda based on your values and your vision for America. We may or may not agree with your values and vision, but we'll certainly welcome you back to the American mainstream with open arms. We need you.

(Anticipating your initial response: No there is nothing that even comes close to this level of wingnuttery on the American Left.)

Written by Russell King

Update: removed the mouth kissing reference and tried to clean up spelling

Hey, so is this guy! Because that damn K'rupt Duopoly obviously isn't Right enough!

Experts: Door could be open for Blankenship to pursue independent Senate run

While it would likely require a legal challenge, some experts say there may be room for former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship to pursue an independent run for the U.S. Senate.

Blankenship, who was released in 2017 from a yearlong prison sentence following a conviction of conspiring to violate mine health and safety laws at the Upper Big Branch mine, finished third in the May 8 Senate Republican primary election...

And this guy! Because that cursed K'rupt Duopoly clearly isn't Left enough!

Sanders to run as a Democrat — but not accept nomination

The Vermont senator announces his complicated reelection plans for another term.

Bernie Sanders is running for the Democratic nomination in Vermont — but he won’t accept it if he wins.

The famously independent senator, who briefly joined the Democratic Party to run in the 2016 New Hampshire presidential primary only to un-enroll later, officially announced Monday that he would seek a third term in the Senate this fall. He also said that he’ll pull the same maneuver that he did in his 2006 and 2012 Senate races: Running as a Democrat, declining the nomination when he wins and then running as an independent.

The move makes it virtually impossible for another Democrat to seek the party’s nod. And it allows Sanders to loom large in the party primary in August, but still preserve his independence...

And this guy! Because in the teevee pundit game, "redolent with Republican stank" has become a professional liability. Also something something K'rupt Duopoly!

Scarborough formally leaves GOP, registers as independent

MSNBC host Joe Scarborough announced in a tweet on Thursday that he had officially registered as an independent, roughly three months after he said he was leaving the Republican Party.

You know, call me crazy, but it's almost like "independent" is nothing but a hollow, meaningless political slogan and that the people who suit up under those colors are mostly whiners, grifters, or frantic to avoid being held responsible for their shitty behavior.

And I would write a long post examining this all in greater detail...

...if I hadn't already written a long post examining this all in greater detail nine years ago.

The "Independent" Granfalloon

In which I play a little game with myself trying to predict what piffle David Fucking Brooks will be trafficking tomorrow on MTP as Rachael Maddow puts her Keds up his ass.

I'm guessing Bobo will be Speaking With Authority about "Independents"; after all he wrote a whole, dumb column about it on Thursday, and has been dining out on that dumb column on radio and teevee for the last two days, so why not make a Sunday brunch out of the leftovers too?...

The Reader helped you survive Bob Greene, and it will help you survive the super blue blood moon

The thing that made me fall in love with the Reader way back in my bright college years of the mid-90s—1995 and 1996, to be precise—was the monthly "Bobwatch" column. Its tagline was "We read him so you don't have to," which pretty much said it all, but at the same time conveyed so little of the column's brilliance: how expertly the pseudonymous Ed Gold tore apart Bob Greene's daily columns on the front page of the Tribune's Tempo section, the detail and incisiveness with which he analyzed what made Greene so awful.

We pick up [Greene's] column with a tingle of anticipation—how awful will it be? Will he content himself with another effortless sputtering of baby talk, lavished over one of his pitiful handful of themes and interests? Or will he reach some new benchmark of idiocy?

Over the next two years, he would pick out every bit of sentimentality and sanctimony and skewer it mercilessly and brilliantly in a way that most of us (especially if we were still college students slogging away at the campus daily) could only aspire to.

What was really impressive was his stamina. Did you ever try to read a Bob Greene column in the 80s or 90s? Nobody could tolerate that many newspaper inches about the long and bitter and extremely boring custody battle over Baby Richard (also pseudonymous). But Ed Gold could! He made it a joy to get in touch with our worst selves:

Bob Greene's sympathy carries the same corrosive effect as praise from the Daily Worker did in the 1950s. Readers who would normally sympathize at the tragic unfolding of the Baby Richard case find themselves hating the child, based solely on the endless sweaty jig Bob insists on performing on his behalf.

Bob Greene speaks for a generation, but which one? He disgorges thoughts so weird, so wrong, that I believe they are so unique in the history of the world.

By Ed Gold

...

Sorry. I've just finished reading Bob Greene's latest book, The 50 Year Dash: The Feelings, Foibles, and Fears of Being Half a Century Old, and his thought patterns are still infecting my brain.

Give me a moment to recover. Breathe. Think of something positive that has happened in the past 25 years: the worldwide eradication of smallpox.

There, I feel better. The fog is lifting. How can this still come as a surprise? It's Bob's 16th book. Just as scenes of London are expected in the work of Charles Dickens, there are certain elements common to every Bob product: the terrible writing; the muddy thinking; the suffocating, relentless nostalgia.

But my God, Bob really tops himself here. Let's begin with the writing. It is the worst he's ever published--perhaps the worst anybody has ever published. You think I'm kidding? Read the following sentence: "Like the father who sits in a ballpark with his son, looking at the boy but also seeing himself as a boy, looking at his boy looking at the ball game and being both the father who is there today and the son who used to be there with his own father forty years before, being the father and the child all at once, and that fact being so much more important than the game out on the diamond..."

Those are his ellipses. On page 97. Second full paragraph. Ellipses. As if at that point he had to break off the sentence to wiggle his fingers against his lips and go, "Ah-bee-bahdee-bahdee-bahdee."

The book is written in all three persons--first person for Bob's own cherished history, third person for real life glimpsed while shuffling through airport walkways, and second person so he can backpedal away from his own thoughts while trying to fob them off as universal experience...

There is something reassuring in the knowledge that the practice of handing big bags of cash to shitty writers with outsized reputations on the back nine of their careers to crank out banal, brain-stunting piffle is nothing new.

Greene's career came crashing down when the details of a previous sexual liaison with an underage girl leaked.

At the time Greene was on a promotional tour for his 21st book and being lauded by Time magazine as a chronicler “for people hungry for moral clarity.”

Since the Liberal Superpower is memory, I thought I'd take mine out for a spin and remind my readers of the last time people of good will decided that the depravity of the GOP could be best handled with genteel half-measures.

This is a video from February 2009 of Senator Patrick Leahy proposing an American version of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Committee as a reasonable middle ground between doing absolutely nothing about eight years of Bush Administration crimes and criminal-incompetence, and spending a decade doing nothing but picking through the ruins the Reign of Dumbses and prosecuting the shit out of its every mastermind, middleman and stooge.

It was a fairy tale because Senator Leahy made the colossal misjudgment of presuming that a substantial number of leaders in the GOP and a large number of Republican party base voters were interested in Truth or Reconciliation.

They weren't.

They were exclusively interested in running the hell away from the disasters they had created as fast as their Medicare-funded Hoverounds could carry them. They were interested in burning their Bush/Cheney laws signs and merch and pretending they has never heard of Dubya and had never troubled their beautiful minds with thoughts of politics or parties. They were interested in putting on funny hats, calling themselves "independents" and gathering in public parks to scream about how the Kenyan Usurper was gonna take all their guns, Death Panel granny and make their kids gay.

And so, nine years after far too many misguided, well-intentioned souls still believed that the solution to the GOP's 50-year-long march into madness was clemency and forbearance, here we are (from Brother Charlie Pierce):

The American Republic Is Fighting for Its Life

Trump has set in motion a constitutional crisis, having sold American foreign policy to the highest bidder.

The time for kidding ourselves about who these people really are and what they and their enablers in the media are willing to do to destroy our country and remake it into something alien and monstrous is over.

You see, it's not that I have given up on the idea of sort of Truth and Reconciliation Committee eventually.

It's just that I also believe that, en route to that commission, Republicans and their media enablers must first have their heads shaved and be marched though the streets wearing signs that say "I Collaborated".

Friday, May 18, 2018

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Mr. Sullivan has not left the cozy, well-appointed confines of his tiny, ideological terrarium in 30 years. So who better for NY Magazine to employ to tell us all what Liberals and Progressives all secretly really believe deep down in crevasses of our intolerant, jackbooted little souls.

Sure Republicans are bad...

Obama’s Legacy Has Already Been Destroyed

In one respect, it seems to me, the presidency of Donald Trump has been remarkably successful. In 17 months, he has effectively erased Barack Obama’s two-term legacy.

But of course, as with every sickening regurgitation of Big Lie of the Both Sides Do It, we know who other villains of this tale must always be. See, Donald John Trump has not just fucked up the Republican party. He has also cleverly baited us Libtards into becoming terrible, terrible people!

More profoundly, Trump has managed to shift our cultural politics. He has baited the left to occupying new territory, thereby cementing his triumph.

So how bad haz we Libtards become?

Real bad.

Fifth column bad.

The middle part of the country - the great red zone that voted for Trump - is clearly ready for war. The decadent left in its enclaves on the coasts is not dead -and may well mount a fifth column.

The middle part of the country - the great red zone that voted for Bush - is clearly ready for war. The decadent left in its enclaves on the coasts is not dead -and may well mount a fifth column.

Hey, you know what? Maybe I owe Mr. Sullivan an apology.

Maybe I have this all wrong

After all, so much has happened in the last 17 years -- so much of the Liberal critique of the Right has been proven over and over again to have brutally accurate -- that perhaps this silly little goof who never leaves his Washington D.C. hobbit hole but somehow believes that he has mastered the intricacies of psyche of the nation has finally figured out that we on the Left who actually live in the world really do know what the fuck we are talking about.

Yes, for Mr. Sullivan, peering out at a country he does not begin to understand from between the slats in his ossified Both Siderist prison, nothing has changed.

Today’s left-liberal consensus is that Obama, however revered he may still be as president, was and is absurdly naïve in this respect: that there is no recovery from the original sin, no possible redemption, and certainly no space for the concept of an individual citizenship that transcends race and can unite Americans. There is no freedom here. There is just oppression. The question is merely about who oppresses whom.

To him, we on the Left are still just a buncha fifth-columnist goons.

What matters before anything else is what race and gender you are, and therefore what side you are on. And in this neo-Marxist worldview, fully embraced by a hefty majority of the next generation, the very idea of America as a liberating experiment, dissolving tribal loyalties in a common journey toward individual opportunity, is anathema.

Yes, American fascism has finally arrived in all its braying regalia. But all Mr. Sullivan can find in it his desiccated little heart to do about it is to make sure every paragraph he writes about the rise of the authoritarian Right is leavened with another paragraph about how those on the Left who will look that evil in the eye and bluntly call it out by its true name are somehow Donald John Trump's Marxist collaborators in ruining the legacy of President Barack Obama.

If Trump has destroyed Obama’s substantive legacy at home and abroad, the left has gutted Obama’s post-racial cultural vision.

Well fuck you, Andrew.

I'm sorry at this point in your career, the only thing you have left -- the only thing footing the bills and keeping you in the style to which you have become accustomed -- is hanging on to that poisonous Both Siderist lie with both hands.

You're not giving it up, no matter how much damage that monstrous lie does.

You're not giving it up, no matter how powerfully it energizes and enables Trump and his supporters.

You're not giving it up, no matter what.

Golly, Andrew, how very...tribal of you.

One might even say that, safe within in your decadent coastal enclave, your career is not dead.

In fact, Andrew, you may well be the vanguard of a Both Siderist fifth column.

In which former George W. Bush chief speechwriter, senior Republican policy adviser and reliable Beltway Republican stalactite, Michael Gerson, once again takes up his pen and inkpot to proclaim that his Republican Party just all of the sudden became a racist shitpile a couple of years ago.

...Yes, these are fringe figures. But they are fringe figures in a political atmosphere they correctly view as favorable.

Sorry, Mr. Gerson but we must interrupt your adorable fairy tale about the history of your Republican party with this important, late-breaking news from 1988!

Do please go on, Mr. Gerson. This is all so terribly interesting!

In the Republican Party, cranks and bigots are closer to legitimacy than at any time since William F. Buckley banished the John Birch Society.

I do apologize, Mr. Gerson but we must once again interrupt your hilarious Republican creation myth with this important, late-breaking news from 1990!

The Politics of Slash and Burn

Published: September 20, 1990

'Sick.'' ''Traitors.'' ''Bizarre.'' ''Self-serving.'' ''Shallow.'' ''Corrupt.'' ''Pathetic.'' ''Shame.'' The group that urged political candidates to use these epithets has since regretted suggesting the word ''traitors,'' in response to inquiries from the press. But the others were allowed to stand; they appear in a glossary that a conservative Republican group recently mailed to Republican state legislative candidates.

The group is Gopac, the G.O.P. Political Action Committee. Its general chairman is Representative Newt Gingrich. With the pamphlet, ''Language: A Key Mechanism of Control,'' comes a letter from Mr. Gingrich himself. Its message to candidates: Step up invective. Use words like these to describe opponents. These words work.

Mr. Gingrich's injunction represents the worst of American political discourse...

The Gopac glossary may herald a descent into even lower levels of discourse. It comes blessed by a politician of some influence - the Republican whip in the House - and it is intended for candidates on the state level, many of them presumably running for the first time. Even though Mr. Gingrich himself may not have seen the list before it was mailed, this is a disturbing document...

Please continue, Mr. Gerson. You have my full attention!

For some of us, this was a concern from the beginning of President Trump’s rise -- not just the policies he would adopt but also the attitudes he would encourage and the passions he would provoke.

Gosh darn it, I am so sorry, Mr. Gerson but we must once again interrupt your spellbinding Republican superhero origin story with still more important, late-breaking news, this time from 1994!

Republicans Get a Pep Talk From Rush Limbaugh

BALTIMORE, Dec. 10 -- To all the advice for the new Republicans coming to Congress, add this from Rush Limbaugh: A hostile press corps lurks inside the Beltway.

"You will never ever be their friends," the talk-show host warned most of the 73 Republican freshmen at a dinner here tonight. "They don't want to be your friends. Some female reporter will come up to one of you and start batting her eyes and ask you to go to lunch. And you'll think, 'Wow! I'm only a freshman. Cokie Roberts wants to take me to lunch. I've really made it!' " The audience laughed.

"Seriously," he added. "Don't fall for this. This is not the time to get moderate. This is not the time to start trying to be liked."

The freshman class, which included not a single "femi-Nazi," one of Mr. Limbaugh's favorite epithets for supporters of women's rights, whooped and applauded, proving itself one big fan club of the man it believes was primarily responsible for the Republican avalanche in November.

Mr. Limbaugh was made an honorary member of the class as its members tonight finished a three-day orientation here sponsored by the Heritage Foundation and Empower America, two conservative Washington research organizations.

Barbara Cubin, an incoming freshman from Wyoming, told Mr. Limbaugh that because 74 percent of the nation's newspapers had endorsed Democrats, "talk radio, with you in the lead, is what turned the tide." On behalf of the women in the class, she gave him a plaque that said, "Rush Was Right." He also received a pin like the ones the freshmen wore, saying, "Majority Maker."

"Rush is as responsible for what happened here as much as anyone," said Vin Weber, a former Representative from Minnesota, now of Empower America. Citing a poll taken after the election by Frank Luntz, a Republican pollster, Mr. Weber said that people who listened to 10 hours or more a week of talk radio voted Republican by a 3-to-1 margin. "Those are the people who elected the new Congress," he said...

Seriously, Mr. Gerson, you are an incredibly well-paid and respected member of the elite Beltway punditocracy who is read my millions every day, while I am a disreputable Libtard blogger who ekes out a few bucks here and there thank to some of my dozens of readers hitting a tip jar when they can afford to. And it is just unacceptably bad manners that your august personage should be so rudely interrupted while you are a guest in my house. So I have barred the door and I have taken the phone off the hook.

Now please, do continue with your fascinating saga!

Whatever else Trumpism may be, it is the systematic organization of resentment against outgroups. Trump’s record is rich in dehumanization...

This is more than a disturbing pattern; it is an organizing political principle. And it has resulted in a series of radiating consequences...

First, it has given permission for the public expression of shameful sentiments...

Excuse me, Mr. Gerson, but Jesus Christ on a UPS truck, you are not going to believe what happened!

Funny story, actually.

It seems that some Liberal asshole bundled together the record of your entire Republican party during the Obama Administration. You know, long before Donald Trump ever oozed down the escalator and into the hearts of the reprogrammable meatbags who always have been the base of your party.

Anyway, this person piled it all together. Your party's conspiracy to sabotage and destroy all Obama initiatives -- a conspiracy they hatched the day President Obama was inaugurated. Your party's theft of Merrick Garland's supreme court seat by the smirking ghoul who leads your party in the Senate.

Every Fox News lie. Every Breitbart hit-piece. Every "respectable" bit of hate-mongering slander pushed out through The Weekly Standard and The National Review.